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The University has agreed to trial two Latin American Databases through May:

Latin American Weekly Report—this is an authoritative report, providing in-depth, insightful analysis of political, strategic and key economic developments throughout the region and is essential reading for all who consider themselves Latinamericanists.

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean—combining instructional and research content, this database is the result of extensive collaboration among students, faculty, and researchers at major institutions of learning; a board of advisors drawn from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, and elsewhere; numerous libraries that contributed primary-source collections to World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean; and Gale's team of editors, technologists, and content creators.

This coming Fall the current RefWorks interface will be replaced with what is being called RefWorks 2.0. The next time you login to your RefWorks account you’ll see a new RefWorks 2.0 link on the main toolbar in the upper right corner of the page. Clicking on that will display the new interface. Once you’re in the new interface, you can click “RefWorks Classic” to reload the old. The data in your account is not affected when you switch back and forth. Through the Spring and Summer, you can continue to use Classic or switch to the new interface.

RefWorks 2.0 is designed to be easier and more efficient for its users with:

Thanks to a University subscription, we now have unlimited full access to the digital version of “The Chronicle of Higher Education.” You no longer need a password when trying to access the most current content (only your John Jay password if you are accessing it from off campus.) You can find it on our Journal a to z list. When you search by title, it is the first option.

We have access to this database only through April 27,2011.
“Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends. All citations can be linked through to your collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books. These links are not established for the trial.”
Two John Jay faculty members ( Karen Terry and Lila Kazemian) compiled the bibliographies for 6 of the topics within the Criminology bibliography.

The New York Times began charging for online access to its current issue on March 28. Non-subscribers have access to twenty articles per month before being asked to pay. All of CUNY has access to the current content of the New York Times through LexisNexis, but this database does not have a browse function. To see content from the current issue of the newspaper, browse the content on the Times’ site, and then search for the desired articles by keyword in LexisNexis. Enter your search terms in the Search for box, and enter New York Times in the by source title box. When the search results appear, change the Sort dropdown menu from Relevance to Newest to Oldest. The content of each issue of the Times from 1985 to the present can be accessed in Academic OneFile, but this database lags one day behind the print/online Times. The content of the Times from 1980 to the present can be searched in LexisNexis, from 1985 to the the present in Academic OneFile, and from 1857 through 2007 in New York Times Historical File. These resources are available throughout CUNY.

Just published by Lloyd Sealy librarians Marta Bladek and Karen Okamoto! "This guide aims to assist students, faculty and the general public in navigating the vast array of terrorism-related resources,focusing on research conducted and published since 2001". Their article Terrorism: A guide to resources appears in the January 2011 issue of Collection building.